This is getting just a wee bit beyond ridiculous:
Of course, they have to be the right kind of immigrants.
I don't mean to make light of this sort of thing -- it's really more than a little disturbing. I blame Trump, even though this is a drum the GOP has been beating for decades; Trump is just the useful idiot du jour, but he does spew his racism with gusto. Sadly, he's played into an element that's always been with us and somehow parlayed that into the presidency, which even more unfortunately has given him the bully pulpit as he has gone about destroying our standing in the world. And they still support him even though he's screwing them over.
Here's video. And, in the irony department, her accent is so thick that she's barely comprehensible.
Via Crooks and Liars.
An angry white woman who identified herself as a Trump supporter called police Thursday morning to report a black state senator who was merely talking with voters outside a Brooklyn subway station.(Emphasis added.)
Sen. Jesse Hamilton was speaking with constituents at the Parkside Ave. subway entrance in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens when the woman, who spoke with an Eastern European accent, accused Hamilton of being too strong in his support for immigrants, his office said.
Of course, they have to be the right kind of immigrants.
I don't mean to make light of this sort of thing -- it's really more than a little disturbing. I blame Trump, even though this is a drum the GOP has been beating for decades; Trump is just the useful idiot du jour, but he does spew his racism with gusto. Sadly, he's played into an element that's always been with us and somehow parlayed that into the presidency, which even more unfortunately has given him the bully pulpit as he has gone about destroying our standing in the world. And they still support him even though he's screwing them over.
Here's video. And, in the irony department, her accent is so thick that she's barely comprehensible.
Via Crooks and Liars.
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